My Retin-A And Isotrex 0.025% Gel Diary(Pictures) - Stopped At Week 14; Azelaic Acid

ADreamer · 2013-01-30T12:10:31Z

Hi, I started using Retin-A about 10 days ago. I won't bore you with my "acne history", one thing I will tell you is i used Roaccutane but acne came back in a very much milder form a year after I stopped. I will try to make this diary as informative and as simple as possible. But if you wish to ask me anything about Roaccutane or Retin-A, go ahead; helping others is partially why i am doing this. I mostly want to keep a diary of my progress, i like to have some kind of record of my journey. So this will be WEEK ONE For the first two days I did a typical beginner mistake-I applied retin-a as if it was a moisturizer. I put around a dime size amount all over my face. My skin was red, irritated, it was peeling and burning so after two nights i decided to have a break for one night. Which helped a lot. After that i figured i really need to only apply a pea size amount! Which is so little and it is really difficult to apply it evenly.. But I managed to learn how to apply it and since then, I have absolutely no burning, no tingling, nothing. Also, after week one redness went away. I learnt that after you wash your face at night, you are supposed to wait for 20 minutes before you apply retin-a. Well, I've been waiting for an hour every night and it greatly reduced my peeling and all that jazz. In week one I already had breakouts as you will see in my pictures. Breakouts for me aren't as awful because retin-a also dries pimples very fast. I noticed my skin isn't as sensitive so I usually use retin-a as a spot treatment during days as well. Which really helps. I don't use any moisturizer at night on top of retin-a, because moisturizer combined with retin-a irritated my skin and made it peel a lot more. I just use 3 products now. As a makeup remover and cleanser: Bioderma Sensibio H20 Cleansing Water(very good product) As a moisturizer: Avene Hydrance Optimale Rich(also very very good, very moisturizing, diminishes flaking completely) Retin-A My pictures are bad quality because I took them with my phone, but there is no need for better quality. Also, all the red marks; those aren't pimples but retin-a really emphasizes the redness so it makes your skin looks worse than it actually is. I have scarring(indents) in my skin but in reality it's not visible, the lighting makes it look pretty bad. Have a nice day and will update soon

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Posted : 03/04/2014 5:17 pm

Still taking zinc and turmeric and I haven't been using any acne prescriptions at all.

I'll post my pictures tommorow when there's some sunlight.

What I have been using for 6 months is La roche posay Effaclar duo and it helps A LOT.

But I am still working on balancing my hormones, dietary changes and speeding up the process of fading acne marks.

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